Quality Engineer/Test Automation Specialist

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Working at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York positions you at the center of the financial world with a unique perspective on national and international markets and economies.

You will work in an environment with a diverse group of experienced professionals to foster and support the safety, soundness, and vitality of our economic and financial systems.  

 

The Bank believes in work flexibility to balance the demands of work and life while also connecting and collaborating with our colleagues in person.

Employees can expect to be in the office a couple of days per week as needed for meetings and team collaboration and should live within a commutable distance. 

What we do: 

The Quality Engineer within the Markets Technology Function is responsible for overall quality assurance and testing of IT solutions.

Participates in every phase of the development process in an agile squad to ensure that the product adheres to business needs.

Tests strategy, execution, automation, and quality metrics along with coaching.

Your role as Quality Engineer/Test Automation Specialist:

Responsible for executing Quality Engineering practices and test automation within a product squad and coaching other quality engineering staff.  Ensuring that the staff provide Agile quality practices for product development through vision and implementation.

Drive recruitment, development, and evaluation of Quality Engineering Chapter members; foster a culture of excellence and continuous improvement that brings knowledge consistency and spreads best practices across the Function.

Identify and implement advanced Quality Engineering principles proactively to improve product delivery quality on a continuous basis.


* Design and develop automated test scripts that ensure applications meet their functional and non-functional requirements.


* Support the DevSecOps vision by designing automation to integrate with build pipelines, and other automated unit, integration, and system tests.


* Provide technical support to and conduct code reviews of other software engineers


* Promote innovation and evolution of quality engineering techniques, test automation technologies and ensure pervasive quality in product development.


* Devise and influence test strategies for mission critical systems and implement comprehensive test coverage for complex changes that require testing efforts to span across multiple products and squads.


* Drive Agile adoption and find opportunities for gaining efficiencies in quality practices, thereby reducing end-to-end testing cycle times for mission critical applications.


* Influence and support adoption of DevSecOps in agile teams by enabling shift left testing.


* Promote agility and demonstrate cross functional skills by taking on development and other non-QE related tasks


* Identify and provide continuous development (e.g., training, mentoring) of other quality eng...